JAMES W. NORTON / VISUAL ARTIST
I explore the transitions that occur between places, where speculative narratives create new territories, new spaces. I investigate these terrains both in theoretical and practical mediums. Working in paint, collage, film, audio, found material and site-specific installations, I allow chance to intervene in the process of seeing, thinking and making.

Landscape plays a pivotal role in my artwork as subject and context creating a dialogue between the shifting dynamics of the past, present and future. A space where multi-layered traces of meaning can exist at anyone time. I am drawn to the spaces in-between spaces, liminality, the periphery, the edge and what lies unseen outside the edge.

I have been working as a Visual Artist for over 25 years in the UK and globally. Working in many mediums producing and selling works and creating projects for both private and public bodies as varied as National Museums and private collectors. Recently I have been working with Filmpoem, the British Museum, the Archbishops Palace and Florence Arts Centre.

Documenting Britain Parallax Shift
Documenting Britain is a creative response to the British Isles by a group of artists, photographers, filmmakers, composers and poets. Our collective purpose is to deliver a critical record of the archipelago on which we live:http://www.documentingbritain.com

LEGION
Is to be shown at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge.Legion is film-poem exploring the residual trauma of a Post-industrial Landscape in the hinterlands of estuarial East London. It was filmed at the now demolished site of the great Gas Lite and Coal Company once formed in Beckton, on the north bank of the Thames near Gallions Reach. This area has witnessed some extraordinary events that have interwoven both fact and fiction into its decaying topography.http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Arts_Picturehouse_Cambridge/